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Buffalo’s DriveStation Duo has established a name for itself as a fast, efficient way to provide secure, external storage. It comprises two high-capacity, high performance hard drives in a neat external box, connected to your PC via USB. It comes with backup and other support software, requires little power and automatically keeps two copies of…

Ever accidentally deleted a file? DataRescuePro can help. This easy-to-use app takes the complex task of data recovery and wraps it up in a few consumer-friendly steps. From hard disks to memory cardsDesigned to work on any type of disk that’s been formatted using either the NTFS or FAT filing systems – including the memory…

With USB3.0 busily establishing itself as the new standard for high-speed data transfer, plenty of external storage drives and full-sized desktop backup devices are appearing that can benefit from these high speeds. Freecom’s Mobile Drive Mg is an attractive option, finished in a sleek silver Magnesium enclosure (for a lightweight, solid and environmentally friendly design)…

Solid State Drives (SSDs) might be the newest and fastest form of storage around – but even though their price is coming down, when it comes to cost versus capacity, the good old mechanical drive still holds sway. The new WD7500 Scorpio Black (WD7500BPKT) is the largest capacity drive to date in Western Digital’s Scorpio…

Unless you have a very new notebook, the chances are it doesn’t have USB 3.0 ports. Well, as you can guess from its mouthful of a name, the 2-Port ExpressCard SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Adapter is just the thing to bring your old laptop up to date. The adapter card uses the notebook’s ExpressCard card slot…

Surprisingly, it isn’t its colossal capacity of 3 terabytes (3TB) that makes the Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 unique. After all, the company hasn’t produced the world’s first 3TB hard disk drive – that honour goes to Samsung. Nor is it the world’s first internal 3.5in 3TB drive – for that, you can thank Western Digital. The…